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Report on Resilience and Recovery from Covid-19 Through Sound Policymaking

This report summarizes the key highlights and messages that were conveyed by the facilitators, speakers, and participants during the Regional Webinar Series on “How to Promote Resilience and Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa through…
| Policy Briefs | Public Institutions

UN/DESA Policy Brief #116: A view of Changes in Institutional Arrangements for SDG Implementation at the National Level Since 2015

Five years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with one third of the implementation period of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals having elapsed, it is important to take stock of relevant institutional arrangements at…
| Policy Briefs | Participation and Accountability | Public Institutions

UN/DESA Policy Brief #114: Connecting the Dots: The Still Elusive Synergies Between Accountability Institutions and the Follow-up and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals

The 2030 Agenda highlights the importance of the follow-up and review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an accountability mechanism and sets clear principles to guide it. Accountability institutions such as parliaments and supreme audit…
| World Public Sector Reports | Public Institutions

World Public Sector Report 2021

National institutional arrangements for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: A five-year stocktaking Institutions are paramount to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and all the Sustainable Development…
| SDG 16 Conference Reports | Public Institutions

Report of the SDG 16 Conference

The 2021 global SDG 16 Conference – Transforming Governance for a more Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Future: SDG 16 as the roadmap to respond to COVID-19 and build back better – came to a successful conclusion on Friday, 30 April 2021, following six…
| Capacity Development Reports | Public Institutions

2021 Snapshots of Capacity Development Activities

This report provides a snapshot of the capacity development activities undertaken by UN DESA’s Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) in 2021. During 2021 DPIDG:   Organized 30+ capacity development activities with 79…
| Policy Briefs | Participation and Accountability | Public Institutions

Resilient Institutions in Times of Crisis: Transparency, Accountability and Participation at the National Level Key to Effective Response to COVID-19

National institutions are strongly impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19). The pandemic has disrupted to varying extents the regular functioning of state institutions, such as parliaments and justice systems, and affected key government functions…
| Policy Briefs | Public Institutions

COVID-19: Reaffirming State-People Governance Relationships

The emergence and spread of the coronavirus in late 2019 and the impact of its disease, COVID-19, which has been categorized by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic, is, at the time of writing, ongoing.   Efforts by governments to…
| Compendia | Public Institutions

Compendium of National Institutional Arrangements for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

In the four years since the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into effect, countries across the world have made significant efforts to establish the institutional arrangements necessary for the successful implementation of the sustainable…
| Compendia | Public Institutions

Compendium of National Institutional Arrangements for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: 2019 Update

Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, countries have continuously updated institutional arrangements in order to enable government institutions and other stakeholders to deliver the objectives encapsulated in the…
| Reports | Public Institutions

World e-Parliament Report 2012

The World e-Parliament Report 2012 documents the efforts of legislatures to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to support their constitutional functions. The Report is based on the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments 2012 conducted…
| Expert Group Meeting Reports | Public Institutions

Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Developing Institutional Capacities of Public Administration for the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Post-Conflict and Crisis Situations

The world is currently engaged in searching for effective ways through which countries can be (i) prepared to face occurrences of violent conflict, crisis, and/or disaster, (ii) prevent/manage them and/or mitigate their negative impact on human…